This thesis will examine the implications of different assumptions from opposing ethical viewpoints on topics concerning embryos and fetuses. This essay seeks to clarify the assumptions ethicists and medical professionals ...

As the Southern Baptist Convention of the mid-19th-century continued its tug-of-war over membership and churches with the Stone-Campbell Restoration movement, James Robinson Graves founded the Landmark movement at a meeting ...

"Pure and faultless religion is this: to look after orphans" (James 1:27). The Bible
explicitly references the call for Christians to look after and care for orphans. Some take
this command as a call from the Lord to ...

Music has played a crucial role in Christian worship since the beginning of Christianity itself. Over the course of the first millennium of this era, a large repertory of monophonic chants was developed and disseminated ...

With the increased desire for high quality coffee, Eclipse Coffee Bar seeks to provide the Abilene area with a coffee shop where people can gather to seek community, study and work. Eclipse Coffee Bar will capitalize on ...

The economic attitudes of each religion’s adherents provide a glimpse into the reasons behind economic development and persistent poverty. This research demonstrates that individual Muslims’ views are more conducive to ...

Human trafficking is a rapidly-growing criminal industry that spans the globe, deeply entrenched in the functioning of the global economy. It is a market, with supply, demand, and commodities that are traded—but in this ...

The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy was not expected either by those inside Catholic politics or by non-Catholic observers. Because of his former anonymity in the English-speaking world, there exists a ...

In order to effectively lessen the drastically increasing morbidity of hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa, new prevalences must be calculated and the causes and aggravating factors of this disease must be more completely ...

Metacomprehension refers to a person’s ability to monitor what information has been learned through reading. Good metacomprehension is important for efficient studying. Prior research shows that most readers demonstrate ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of kainate-induced early life
seizures on vocalization behavior and intracellular signaling pathways involved in
nervous system development. On postnatal day 10, ...

East Africa carries the highest burden of unplanned pregnancy worldwide. Many studies have stressed the importance of family planning programs in preventing unplanned pregnancy as well as maternal and child morbidity and ...

Hippotherapy is a type of therapy that utilizes the motion of a horse to facilitate the stimulation and stretching of muscles in people with disabilities in order to increase strength, balance ability and coordination. ...

In order to maximize the number of infants weighing in the birthweight range associated with the lowest amount of morbidity and mortality (2,500-4,000 grams) the complex interactions between the anthropometric, social, and ...

The Luo tribe of western Kenya has the highest infant mortality, maternal
mortality, and HIV rate in Kenya (Kenya DHS, 2010). This study of 49 mother-child
pairs was done in May 2013 in the context of an annual temporary ...

Understanding the biochemical pathway of nanoparticle uptake in human cells has important implications for nanomedicine and occupational health risk assessments. The mechanism of NP uptake in cells remains largely unknown, ...

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease affecting people of all ages and most studied in children and the elderly. This disease causes swelling of the lung’s airways leading to wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, ...

In 1993, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice began a prison expansion project. From 1993 to 1995, Texas prison capacity nearly doubled. The prison expansion led to a large, exogenous increase in Texas worker ...

Due to a personal experience with chronic illness as a child and a passion for these children and their families, this thesis deals with effective and ineffective coping mechanisms of parents and siblings of a child with ...

Women from the Luo tribe have the highest HIV prevalence of any ethnicity
and gender category in Kenya (22.8%). Due to the high prevalence of HIV, it is
important that these women deliver their infants in health care ...